The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-12-01
PROHIBITION CONVENTION.
The Main Business Was the Adop-
ton of an Address to the Peo-
nln

ton OF an Address to the PeO-
pie.
About two hundred delegates were pres
ent at the State Prohibition Convention
in Minneapolis. The convention was call
ed to order by Rev. j. =. Pinkham, chair
man OF the state committee. Hon. Noah
Lathrop was made temporary chairman
and w. w. Satterlee temporary secretary.
committee on resolutions was APP
pointed consisting OF w. w. Satterlee, j.
p. Pinkham, c. E. Holt. N. p. Lind, Prof.
Farnham, w. Peterson, M. Rut, Mrs.
Hobart, Mrs. Knox and Mrs. Elliott. The
committee on nomination reported as
follows:
President, Noah Lathrop, Mort hfeld
vice president, Mrs. c. Hobart, Red Wing
second vice president, w. b. Laid, Mime
apolis; secretary, &. N. Woodward: assist
ant, w. Dennis.
The report OF the committee on Resolu-
tions was in the form OF n long address.
The first part of the address was occupied
with setting forth the evils OF the liquor
traffic (which have reached such magnl-
tude and degree of destructiveness that
they threaten the foundations OF govern
ment, society and the home" Not the
least OF these evils is the corrupt use OF
money to influence elections and legsla-
ton. The latter part OF the address was
occupied with consideration OF the
remedy.
AND THIS Is THE REMEDY.
The saloon, it set forth, has entered pol
itics with its own methods and weapons.
1t has allied itself with the two old parties
and to-day rules them with rod OF iron.
While thousands OF voters in both the old
parties are hostile to the licensed saloons.
their voice is silenced. their wishes ignored
and they vote the ticket dictated largely
by the liquor Dealers their paid attorneys
and subsidized newspapers. We submit in
all candor that the prospect OF obtain
ing prohibition OF the saloon traffic,
either in Minnesota or in the nation,
through the agency OF either OF the old
political parties, is delusive. The Demo
cratic leaders make no pretensions in that
direction, while the Republican leaders,
for the most part, make nothing but PIE
tense. In consideration OF these facts and
standing to the doctrine that the saloon
system as it exists in the United States
ought to be abolished and prohibited Ivy
constitutional and legislative enactments,
we therefore pledge ourselves anew to tie
maintenance OF the Prohibition party
as absolutely essential both to the
establishment Of prohibitory law and its
enforcement. We assert without fear OF
successful contradiction that the protested
attempt to lessen intemperance and vice
by restricting sales under the highest law,
is practically a failure. The diminution
OF dram shops is scarcely appreciable,
| while those remaining, paying high Ii
cense, have an abundant opportunity to
increase their sales. make more drnnkards,
and cause an increase OF pauperism, crime,
and public expense. The principle in Ii
consing public evil is itself fundamentally
wrong. We believe that local option
as advocated by the old parties is a
delusion and snare, wrong in principle and
in practice a failure. Ii local option
be correct in principle, why not
each town in Utah? Why not submit
gambling to the voters OF each city? Why
not vote at each election on licensing for
money all other crimes known to modern
civilization? The issue can never be per-
manently settled by option and we pro-
pose to fight it out on the prohibition line
if it takes a lifetime. We maintain that
the entire prohibition OF the saloon traffic
is a principle sound in law and ethics and
practically possible-the first PROPOSE.
ton having been sustained by the
highest tribunals and the record proven,
not only by experience and the direct
testimony OF eminent men, but by the
writings OF the rum power itself. That
the governmental power to abate the al.
cohol nuisance without compensation to
owner is, and OF right ought to be- as in
| right to abate slaughter house or soap
| factory without compensation.
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
We favor the enactment OF a law to pun
| ish any voter who shall ask for or accept
| Il bride for his vote or influence at any
| election, and to punish any one who shall
give bride. We fully endorse the princi-
| pies of the interstate commerce law pro-
/; u RI mo
| between persons and localities and favor
| their rigid enforcement. We favor such
| legislation as will require all railroad cor
| porations in this state to furnish grain
| warehouses at each depot and grant
equal facilities to all persons for handling
grain. We sympathize with the farmers
| and workingmen' 8 organizations in their ef
| forts to secure equal justice. We ask con-
| gress to pass in terstate telegraph law for
| the proper regulation OF telegraph lines
| and their use whereby the public may
| be served on equal terms ct reasonable
| rates and without discrimination. We
commend the action OF the temperance
| bodies OF the Knights Of Labor on the pro-
| hibition question, and OF the Christian
board who have encouraged prohibition.
The report finally concluded with the
statement that the Prohibition party is
| the only one to meet these various
| issues OF the times. Measures were taken
| to complete the organization OF the state
| by congressional, senatorial and legislative
( districts, counties and townships. 1t was
recommended that the campaign
OF 1888 be opened by public meetings in
every school district as well as il. the
towns and cities OF the state, and ST.
| 500 was raised for that purpose. The fol-
lowing state central committee was APP
pointed First district, J. r. Watkins,
| Winona; w. Dennis, Owatonna. Second
district, T. P. Grout Luverne; T. NJ. Dyer,
Cottonwood. Third district, D. w. Ed
wards LIE Sueur; N. Lathrop, Dakota.
Fourth, w. Peterson and r. p. Lupton.
J. B. Stevens, Becker. At large, j. p.
Pinkham, G. f. Wells, Hugh Harrison,
Prof. Reinstadt, c. w. Woodward.
| Charles w. Slayton entered suit at St.
Paul, against Close, Bros. & Co., to bring
| about accounting OF profits derived from q
real estate partnership. The parties con-
tracted together for the sale ofcertain land
| amounting to about 200, 900 acres situated
in Minnesota and Iowa, from the profits OF
which sales the plaintiff was to receive 10
per cent.
| Rev. Father Stephen Byrne OF the Holy
Rosary church OF Minneapolis. died at the
parochial residence. Cancer OF the liver
was the cause OF his death and his last ill
ness has been long and painful.
The chief OF police of Chaska was as
saulted by brother OF Aid. Riedele, and
| it is feared that he will die.
State Superintendent Kiehle has prepared
| a circular, which is to be forwarded to the
clergymen OF the state, calling their atten-
ton to the fact that by the last legislature
it was enacted that provision be made in
the public schools for regular and system
attic instruction in physiology and hygiene
including special reference to the effects Of
stimulants and norcotics upon tho human
system" asking their cooperation in the
administration OF the law by delivering q
discourse upon the principles OF the in.
struction and training to be observed that
the youth OF the state may be established
In characters OF industry, temperance and
virtue. 1t is suggested that the discourse
be given either during December or Janu-
ary.
One hundred Red Wing citizens visit Gov.
McGill in q body and request him to ap-
point residents of their cjtv on tho hoa ri